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Mike Brunette: This is a true game changer, if you're serious about photography & more importantly video this is a killer piece of glass.

Suffice it to say that the super heavyweight 200mm/2.0 lenses that most pros want, yet can't afford is way more expensive (list price $9,500), and harder to transport, not to mention the big canon is almost 1/2 stop slower.

Biowizard: It's coming soon ... heaven help us all ... the "mirrorless" iPhone with interchangeable lenses! But do we want it? NO!!!!!

There's a reason "DSLRs" work - and its no longer because the bodies were modified from film versions. Rather, it's why 35mm SLRs were SO much more successful in overall sales and market penetration than any other form of serious camera.

Yes, the 6x6 and 6x4.5 medium format Hasselblads, Mamiyas and Pentaxes gave even better resolution, depth of field control, and so on - but they were too "big" for most uses.

Yes, the 110 SLR (Pentax, remember it?) or even APS (where I have I heard that acronym of late?) SLRs appeared and then vanished like sparkle-dust: why? Too small. Too small to handle, too small to use, too small, period.

The 35mm is simply the "right" size to hold, adjust, plug things into, and shoot with.

So LONG LIVE the 35mm-sized DSLR! And away with these micro-sized system cameras. I already have an iPhone.

Brian

Neh, DX is about the size of the old cameras. The current 35mm cameras are much larger than its film counterparts.

ama1: What do you mean by "Outstanding high ISO performance..." When I look at the crops of shots at ISO 3200 or 6400, they look horrible. Some point and shoots are better than D800. Am I missing something?!

Looks like you're looking at them at 100% crop. Pixel peeping is useless for comparing different cameras.

babart: Oh, great. So what the hell is an HDMI port? High-Density Mitigating Instrument? Hot Darn Miniature Input? HillsDale MIchigan? Holy Demons Maintenance Incubator? I'm sorry. But can I ask you put in the real English translation before spitting out reams of acronyms. And thank you. Though I'm not holding my breath.BAB

lol. This stuff have been around for some time. Looks like you need to be slightly more techy.

Der Steppenwolf: Just another example of how stupid it is to actually buy first batch of cameras from ANY brand today. One becomes a paying beta tester for manufacturers. It is a truly sad and unfortunate development.

The problem is, no manufacturers wanna be late in the game, so they'll have to rush schedules.

Model Mike: Thanks for the very useful summary. The elimination of halos resulting from aggressive use of Fill Light in PV2010 is pretty impressive. Slight nitpick is the suggestion that Clarity increases mid-tone contrast - I understood it to mean local (rather than global) contrast enhancement.

It's basically sharpening the Lightness channel in LAB mode with a high radius. You can do that in Photoshop with more flexibility.

Dave1308: There seems to be a lot of consternation over the pricing of the 24-70 ii.

With regards to the 24-70 ii the price is only relevant to the quality of the lens, which is still to be confirmed. You don't see too many people complaining about the price of the 70-200L IS ii.

I am not really sure what people were expecting given Canon's current lens line up.

Interestingly the L series is often referred as professional grade and I would argue that depending on the quality of the 24-70 ii, it is potentially a winner for serious amateurs as well.

The reason being that if the optical quality is a step up and the lenses are more consistent than the mark i versions then the versality of that focal length combined with optics that may be well get somewhere near (but probably not all the way) to some of the well regarded primes - most of which sit between $1400 and $2000.

OldZorki: In a bit of a separate note I would like to complement DXO team. Some time ago I requested support for Tokina DX 35mm 2.8 Macro. Those lenses where not in official "queue" - however they add it in March 28 release. Dunno if it was just me or some other people requested it - but nevertheless, it is included now.Well done DXO - nice to see a company who actually listening to customers.Appreciated.

If only Adobe Labs and DxO Labs would work together. I tried the demo of DxO Optics Pro and the lens correction is way more accurate than Adobe Lightroom's. But DxO Optics Pro lack a lot of features Lightroom has. I couldn't integrate DxO Optics Pro into my workflow. I tried to use DxO specifically for lens correction and leave other corrections to Lightroom, but for some reason they cook all their photos once you export them. Is there any workaround for this?

Leo: The LR3 Brightness was very useful for me. I have used Brightness/Exposure to keep highlights and brighten the mid-tones. Transferring the images processes as 2010 to 2012 may dramatically change my images end results. How I can brighten mid-tones without Brightness adjustment? :-(

Also, I do agree with zeroing the defaults values. I always set Brightness, Contrast and Black lever to zeros at the very beginning. The set Brightness=50%, Contrast=25% and Black lever 5% is equivalent to +1EV. The opened image would be always shown overexposed when opened with 50-25-5.

The added soft-proofing with Before and After is great!

Looking forward to upgrade!LeoPS Thank you for the update!!! - very helpful!

Increasing exposure and decreasing highlights has a similar effect, you could try that.